[115.10] The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) optics

The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) for NASA’s James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the four science
instruments installed into the Integrated Science Instrument
Module (ISIM). NIRCam has very stringent requirements on its
optical quality, both to meet the observatory requirement of
diffaction-limited images at 2 microns, and because NIRCam
is used as the wavefront sensing system in JWST to determine
the overall observatory wavefront error. NIRCam operates
over the waveband 0.6 to 5.0 microns, must operate with low
wavefront error at 37K, and must meet these requirements
after a warm launch. This poster is an overview of the
NIRCam instrument’s optical hardware and performance.

The NIRCam instrument is funded by NASA/GSFC under contract
NAS5-02105.

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